SSD And Smashing The Price Barrier
Solid state drives are undeniably awesome, and I really want to use one in the new PC I'm building (by September 1), but the prices are just insane.Wait, make that "have been" insane. From Daily Tech:
OCZ is looking to trump Super Talent's push down-market with faster SSDs at even lower price points. The company today announced its new Core Series 2.5" SSDs which are the most affordable, large-capacity SSDs that we've seen to date. The 32GB, 64GB, and 128GB models are priced at $169, $259, and $479 respectively -- the drives also feature a two-year warranty.
And unlike the Super Talent MX SSDs, these new Core series doesn't give up much in terms of speed to its more expensive rivals. OCZ is projecting read speeds of 120 to 143 MB/sec and write speeds of 80 to 93 MB/sec. All Core Series SSDs feature a mean time before failure (MTBF) of 1.5 million hours.
If you're wondering how fast those drives are, based on the specs, the answer would be "damned fast." And $479 might sound like a lot for a 128GB drive, but that's basically 1/4 (or less) what the price was for a 128GB (but slower) drive last year.
75% price drop in twelve months, in other words.
No heat. No noise. I'm in.
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